Ingredients
- 4 eggs, hardboiled. cooled to room temperature
- 1 small onion,cut into 1" chunks
- 1 stalk of celery, cut into 1" chunks
- 2 sprigs of basil, leaves only
- 2 T parsley leaves
- 1T capers
- 2t mustard
- 1 sweet pickle or a little pickle relish
- 1 5 oz can tuna packed in oil
- salt and pepper to taste
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Tuna Stuffed Eggs
Time: 20 minutes prep, 10 minutes cook
Servings: 4
Directions
- Place the onion, celery, whole parsley leaves, basil, capers, mustard, pickle and tuna in food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Alternatively, finely chop all ingredients with a mezzaluna or large knife.
- Transfer to bowl and set aside.
- Peel the eggs and halve them lengthwise.
- Remove yolks and crumble over tuna mixture.
- Toss well and fill the egg white halves.
- Serve on a bed of greens lightly tossed with olive oil (and add different colored olives and/or fried eggplant rounds as you wish) and seasoned with salt and pepper.
- Leftover filling is delicious spread on crostini.
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Summary
I first had these as part of a beautiful salad that also included fried eggplant rounds and several types of olives, at the Locanda Rosati near Orvieto, Umbria, Italy. Wonderful for a spring antipasto or as part of a summer lunch.